V. I.

Lenin

The question is of theoretical interest too :

the proletarian state power holds a material base

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factories railways foreign trade.

Consequence: in its hands is a commodity stock and its wholesale (railway) transport.

What is the proletarian state power doing with this stock?
Selling it :
(α) to the workers by hand and brain for money, or for their labour without money;
(β) to the peasants for grain .

How does it sell? Through whom?

Through a commission agent (= a trader ) for his percentage on commission.

It gives preference to the co-operatives (trying to organise the entire population in them).

Why is this impossible ? Yet this is capitalism +socialism.